Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-07
MRS. GREEN'S MILLIONS.
She Has Added to Them In Chicago
as Well as in New York

as Well as In New York.
Chicago Herald: II city Green, the
richest woman in America, comes to Chi
cago once In while to attend to her
enormous real estate interests mere.
| When in town she usually stops at the
Southern hotel, humble but respectable
| hOstelry, where she takes a room without
| fire, and for it, with board, pays $l.25 a
day. The last time Mrs. Green was here
| the weather chanced to be wintry, but
| she went around town wearing an old
| black straw hat, n black veil and an old
shawl. Sometimes she stops with sister
in-law on the West Side, poor woman
who has a pretty hard struggle to get
along. Stopping there is even cheaper
for Hctty than at the Southern hotel
when at her sisters she does her own
washing to save laundry bills.
Just after the great fire of 1871 Mrs.
Green loaned about $500,O00 on Chicago
real estate, gilt edged and at Il stiff rate
of interest, On II portion of these loans
she finally forcclosed, and gradually pur-
| chased other property, until her total in
| vestment here reached something like
! $500, 600: This property is now worth
nearly million Much of it is down
town business property, earning a hand
this property that Mrs. Green oc
casionally visits Chicago. Her agcn-
never knows when she is coming, as SHIT
has habit of dropping in on him una
wares. She is very keen old woman.
She goes about to building after building,
inspecting walls and floors, looking after
the work of the janitors, etc. Her last
visit to Chicago is greatly regretted by II
colored janitor employed in one of her
buildings. He saw a cranky looking old
woman prowllng about the premises one
day, and, not getting satisfactory replies
TO his interrogatories, he threw her into
the street The jantor was not discharged
he was faithful man-but he had his
wages cut down 81 week, and they
have been cut ever since.
Mrs. Green is an inveterate spcculatOr
When the activity in Wall street began
last fall she left her New Hampshire farm
and went to New York in order to be
near the speculative heart. To avoid ho-
tel bills in the city she went to live in u
cheap boarding house AT Far Rockaway.
Mrs. Green never wllfully wasted dol
lar since she came into the possession of
| the fortune of her father, who slew
whales for n living. Whaling was
big business in the days when Mrs
Green's gruif parent sent his craft out
pipe until they came back with cargoes
of oil to add to his big pile. When he
went hence he left $4,000 600 to
his daughter Hetty, and an aunt of the
latter subsequently added $4,000, 900
| more when she bade adieu to worldly
cares. Miss Hetty, for she was spin
ster then, did not let her heap of gold.
mildew. She kept it in such constant use
| that the milling was worn off the edges,
| and when she welded she could have
| signed her name for check for $50, ,000-
600, If it had pleased her to DO so. just
as soon as the nuptia! event WAS over she
resumed her money.making ways, and
succeed in adding $10,OO0O0O more to
| her fortune. She prOdoses to continue
her monay getting occupation so long as
she IS spared to do It,
| She was formerly the great power in
| the stock of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad. which is now prominent in
stock speculative operations. She cor
ncred with great regularity about three
times year, and made spectators who
were short of it pay for being on tho
wrong side. Everyone of her stock
squeezers brought vast profits to her,
and she naturally caused repetition OF
of them as often as practicable. When
she had extracted all she could from
Reading as her stock she transferred her
operations to the stock of the Louis.
vile g. Nashville railroad. She is now
the practical owner of the property and
also of the Georgia Central. Her opera
| tiOns in Louisville, to use the brokers'
abbreviation, have made her famous.
She has run the price up and down, and
| made hundreds upon hundreds of dollars
| by the process. There has been n big,
| long bull movement in Louisville during
| the past few months. 1t has been said
| all along that the steady rise in the stock
| was due to buying for London account.
| There is now, however, little doubt that
Mrs. Green has been the power nj work
in the stock
She is estimated to have made at least
q in kac hir Iool Frha
moved up in the face OF adverse con-
ditions, for the showing Of the road has
not been good. The only thing that she
had favor IN was the general market, but
that would not have carried the
stock up. The operation was
n plain one, but it required
Ts ana f ne @se as G1 arSs vast
confidence in Louisville and was disposed
to bear it. The higher, it went, the
| greater the drop would be, spcculators
thought, and they kept increasing the
| short interest.
Mrs. Green bought the stock that the
| bears went short of, The bears had to
| borrow to make their deliveries to Mrs
| Green. They relied on smash in the
price to buy the stock to return that
which they had borrowed, and they also
hoped to buy it at a less price than they
sold. In the latter case the difference be-
tween Inc Seillng price ana the buying
price would have prevented the profit
of the bears, The smash, however, never
came. Mrs Green had II grip Oh the stock
like iron. She kept walking the price
! up until she had got the beurs all scared.
They saw their losses getting bigger, and
finally began to try TO return their bor.
| rowing before their position became even
| worse than it was. Mrs Green supplied
! the stock that was required, and the dit
ference between the price at which she
| bought and the price at which she sold
| represented her profit, and the loss OF the
bears.
Mrs. Green dresses as comfortably as
an industrious washerwoman, but no
more fashionably. She wears her ciotnes
until they are worn out, and by that ',iho uho
they arc ready for the paper mlll, ,nav @
rides down town in horse car, anu ,'"1 uy
have with her 81. .OOO, ,OOo in bonds done ip W.
in piece of newspaper. Nobouv on9 mou'u urn
supect her of being worm '''''''O'
csnts.